I had a custom-painted candy apple red maverick with a 302 in high school. Cool car, but I would have to be a billionaire before I could have that name.

Lance(r)

Breezeway! Almost owned one of these as a kid but dad decided I didn’t need a roll down rear window—or a 390 cubic inch engine.

Yeah, the E36 M3 had similar power to an e46 330i (one of which I owned for a while). The e36 weighed a bit less, but as reasonable as 240 or so hp is I bet it didn't feel particularly sporty or fast.

By going to the dealer does that mean you have the same model plugs? That is a shame—when I was a kid wrenching on the family fleet of Ford 302s I had to do plugs all the time. These days it seems like I never have to do them.

It’s gotta be 99.44 (percent aluminum).

I should get this installed on my new Rolls non-SUV. It would look bitchin’!

Not just good for galactic hitch-hikers, but seriously, have towels with you at all times.

My XJ was a Sport. Rock crawling was the original Sport in SUV. A different kind of sport than racing, though jeeps can do that too:

It Lagonda interior looks good, but just like on the model 3 you can’t see the guages. Probably in the Lagonda’s case because they failed 25 years ago.

“Their recent show car, the Quantino, for example, uses a 48V electrical system.”

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars where they used shuttle tanks. A bit of extra rocketry got them to orbit and they are already airtight and HUGE. alas, that is gone but I like the “while we’re there” attitude we could build a bigger station with each flight. I want a ring with centrifugal gravity dammit!

Little Rock is great, but the longest wait to get my bag. You can see the tail fun of the plane like 300 yards away, but it takes half an hour to get your bags. Oh well, must be the laid back southern thing.

You know what I REALLY don’t get? People who keep things other than cars in their garage. In our neighborhood we have nice cars, like an E60 5-Series, a Q7 and a Jag XK parked in the narrow streets while everyone seems to have junk piled in their garages. how does that make any sense?

There seems to be a Jalop on every block.

Yes, it was close, but all of that superior BMW driving school education is why he didn't actually hit anyone.

I wonder if the Germans throw “naturlich” at the start of every sentence to make sure the sentence sounds dismissive? Like “you negotiating with the suppliers?” “Whaddya think!”

Reminded me of this!

That's what Vice Grips are for.

Squids don't even need helmets since they don't have endoskeletons.